BIOL 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Blood Gas Test, Partial Pressure, Hemoglobin

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Blood gas transport is the third important process involved in respiration. This process takes oxygen from the alveoli of the lungs to the other tissues of the body and takes carbon dioxide from all other tissues of the body the alveoli of the lungs. Both oxygen and carbon dioxide are carried by attachment to hemoglobin and as dissolved gases. The dissolved gases create the partial pressures within the blood. Carbon dioxide is also transported as bicarbonate ions, which is important to controlling the ph of the blood. Thus, the respiratory system plays an important role in acid-base balance. ~ 1. 5% carried as dissolved oxygen (partial pressure) ~ 98. 5% carried attached to fe of hb (topic 1) Only about 1. 5% of oxygen transported by blood is carried as dissolved oxygen. This oxygen is responsible for the partial pressure discussed previously. The majority over 98% is carried by attachment to the iron of the heme of the hemoglobin molecules in erythrocytes.

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